278: Spies Like Us
Nov 19, 2004
Stories about amateur spies—regular people who spy on other regular people, and the consequences of their spying.
- When Burt Covit was programming his VCR one day, he accidentally tuned in to a channel showing the lobby of a building. He started to watch, and couldn't stop. Then a mysterious woman appeared, wearing a pill-box hat. Burt told this story on the CBC radio program Wiretap. Jonathan Goldstein, a contributing editor to This American Life, is the host of Wiretap. This story is a work of fiction, staged as a radio interview. (12 minutes)
Song: " Television," Robyn Hitchcock
